Combining traditional Japanese woodblock prints with American street art, Gajin Fujita leads viewers into a hybridity of Japanese and American visual culture.
Read moreAn Open Letter to Bekah
Dear Bekah,
By now it is quite clear that the damage done to your sculpture was not as malicious as we originally suspected. I still feel compelled, however, to speak directly to you about what happened last Wednesday night. Your piece has joined a sad club of defaced art, bruised by anger, ignorance, and the inflated ego of a viewer. Unfortunately this kind of vandalism has a long history, both at Covenant and throughout art history.
Read moreTea with Local Milk
“Hey! Wanna meet at my house instead?...I’m not in the mood to be in public.”
When I got this email from Beth Kirby, about 20 minutes before we were scheduled to meet, I lost it. All day long I had looked forward to meeting Beth, the artist behind the brand Local Milk, at a coffee shop in town. Being invited to her home for a cup of tea felt too good to be true.
Read moreGordon Parks: Selling Segregation
As an African American documentary photographer working for Life magazine in the 1950’s Deep South, Gordon Parks forged a new path for civil rights photography. Atlanta’s High Museum of Art’s exhibition, Gordon Parks: Segregation Story, features over forty color photographs the artist made of the Thornton family in Mobile, Alabama.
Read moreWe Keep Having This Conversation Review
Buzzwords like “belonging” and “ideal” surround viewers as they enter UTC’s Cress Gallery, all in today’s best shades of gray, orange, tan, yellow and pink, using vinyl panels separated by metal zippers. Professional graphic designers Keetra Dean Dixon and JK Keller blur the line between design and fine art in their collaborative exhibit we keep having this conversation.
Read moreHunter Invitational III
The Hunter Invitational III opened this summer to a warm greeting from the Chattanooga community. Featuring eight artists from the Southeast region of the United States, this exhibition includes various themes and mediums in order to bond these artists together through locality. On a personal note, this exhibit is all the more dear to Covenant students, as our own Jeffery Morton has several paintings and drawings featured in the show along with other friends to our community like Phillip Andrew Lewis and Jered Sprecher. The show will be at the Hunter through October 19th.
Read moreSite/change/process
If you haven’t heard, the art barn is being leveled this Fall, and bringing with it tears and anxieties about the coming years of art at Covenant. For many, the barn’s demolition was devastating news, especially for many of the seniors who looked forward to creating their SIPs in the space that has had an impact on generations of Covenant College art majors. The art department held a wake to mourn the loss of the beloved barn, which with all its kinks and cracks managed to inspire attendance from faculty, students, and staff from almost all of the departments in the college.
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